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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Politicians want social media to shut up

30 November 2025 10:59 pm

Censorship was never about public safety

Partyship Down

30 November 2025 8:38 pm

Can someone ask the moderates to leave? The party is over.

The AI-human pairing needed to grow Australia’s prosperity

30 November 2025 3:04 pm

Blended workforces and a lighter regulatory touch

Chris Bowen: president of negotiating our decline

30 November 2025 10:33 am

It has been recently reported that Chris Bowen, the Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister in the Albanese Cabinet, will…

Pauline Hanson proves we have a two-tier senate

29 November 2025 6:23 pm

How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black…

The trans myth

29 November 2025 12:03 pm

On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament…

Protecting victims of explicit AI content online

29 November 2025 10:51 am

This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’. The Bill is…

Can democracy protect private property?

28 November 2025 2:13 pm

Net Zero is pushing governments to violate our rights

The textbooks of hate

28 November 2025 1:27 pm

Palestinian children raised for martyrdom

The story of a nation in flames

28 November 2025 12:37 pm

The wildfires in northern and northwestern Iran have become headline news around the world. All eyes are fixed on the…

Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals to sit on crossbench

27 November 2025 3:26 pm

New England is at the heart of Australia. The Canberra bubble may not like it, but Canberra is merely a…

The burqa, dress codes and democracy

26 November 2025 3:10 pm

The public bushfire over the banning or not of the burqa continues to burn. Sadly, much of the language used…

Queensland’s hospital system is on the brink

26 November 2025 1:32 pm

Blocked beds cost taxpayer almost $1 billion per year

Parliament cancels A Super Progressive Movie trailer: ‘It might offend someone’

26 November 2025 12:53 pm

Last night in Canberra, I attended One Nation’s launch of the trailer for A Super Progressive Movie – the feature-length…

Ukraine-Russia 28 point peace plan – is this the end of the war? | Pete Shmigel S3 Ep 13

26 November 2025 3:00 am

The world waits to see if the Trump-led 28 point peace plan offers Russia enough to stop its advance into…

Pauline Hanson: I’ve won the people

25 November 2025 9:25 pm

Why is the Senate terrified of debating a burqa ban?

A party that thinks Vaucluse is Australia

25 November 2025 3:36 pm

The Liberal Party has discovered a new theory of renewal: if the roof caves in on Wednesday, replace the beams…

NDIS: The compassion racket

25 November 2025 3:00 pm

Emotional incentives are the most expensive kind

Do you still trust the media?

25 November 2025 2:35 pm

The seven problems of modern journalism

Liberal Party is dead, and moderates just delivered its eulogy

25 November 2025 10:23 am

Yesterday I was toying with Nietzsche’s idea that God is dead, and we have killed him, but in a Menzian…

G20 leaders ‘defy Trump’ gloating that net zero will cost trillions

25 November 2025 9:41 am

There is something remarkably juvenile about prime ministers, presidents, and media establishments gloating that the G20 Leaders’ Summit has ‘defied…

Australia’s yellow brick road

24 November 2025 2:13 pm

A pavement going nowhere fast under Albanese and Chalmers

International Men’s Day momentum builds

24 November 2025 1:07 pm

What does the growing support and recognition of International Men’s Day mean? Last week in Adelaide I hosted my third…

Trump keeps talking, Putin keeps shooting

24 November 2025 12:37 pm

The failure to conclude Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Donald Trump’s first really big boo-boo. The failure fuse was lit…

Memo to Jess Wilson: I’ve found your shadow Treasurer for you

23 November 2025 2:07 pm

On Friday, I spent an afternoon at the H R Nicholls Society annual conference, as a guest of the Society.…